caa a22 4500 477090958 CHVBK 20180405111515.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01239348 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01239348 Silvertown Jonathan Biology Department, Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK aut Are sub-alpine firs evolving towards semelparity? [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Silvertown] Summary: In sub-alpine forests of Northeast America and Japan pure stands of trees in the genusAbies exhibit wave regeneration. Opportunities for recruitment in such forests are confined to a window in time and space that coincides with the death of an even-aged cohort of adult trees. I suggest that the coincidence of this recruitment window with the death of adults at a predictable age should select for convergence between age at first reproduction and age at death. Ultimately this would lead to the evolution of semelparity. The available evidence supports this hypothesis for wave-regeneratedAbies populations in Japan. A field test of the hypothesis is also suggested. Chapman & Hall, 1996 Abies nationallicence semelparity nationallicence life history evolution nationallicence wave regeneration nationallicence Evolutionary Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 10/1(1996-01-01), 77-80 0269-7653 10:1<77 1996 10 10682 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239348 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239348 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Silvertown Jonathan Biology Department, Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Evolutionary Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 10/1(1996-01-01), 77-80 0269-7653 10:1<77 1996 10 10682 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer